Covered same ground as Brian De Palma's Carrie (1976) and then some. A sullen, slightly overweight high school girl (Susan Myers) is mocked by her classmates, her sister and her father, so she starts using psychic powers for revenge. Turns out the girls' gym teacher had a role in this.
Her bourgeois mother (Lee Grant) smokes in bed even though she just watched her friend die from Spontaneous Human Combustion. With Helen Hunt as her 13-year-old sister. It has a creepy parapsychologist who looks like a regular 1970's guy.
It's described as a "forgotten film" on Wikipedia, but I remember seeing it on VHS about 30 years ago.
I remembered a scene where a radio comes on by itself and starts going through the stations. It wasn't much of a special effect, but I thought it would be scary if it happened to me.
Free on Tubi.
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